Astral Chain (Zero Punctuation) 

First!

So, when will you review *Code Vein?*

I wonder why some weeks there's subtitles and others not.

I know this might be a foolish question but could you talk about FGO (Fate Grand Order) if possible Escapist

RIP

Hang on! Don't write yourself off just yet. There are other factors to consider. For instance: Are you a cop that doesn't play by the rules and is instead led by a personal moral compass?

​@@Kell_Craask"days close to retirement" overrules "cowboy cop"/"by the book cop"

Having heard said dialogue, he made the right call.

@@NathanCassidy721 He never liked the franchise anyway , so I'm not too surprised

Forget Borderlands 3, he actually mentioned Fire Emblem.

Probably because it’s not really worth that much more of anyone’s time

@Spencer Reed To me, Borderlands 3 was five steps on from Bl2, and then the character of the world takes 500 steps back until it's lying at the feet of Borderlands 1. Why the living fuck did gearbox, (you know, the guys who didn't put a lot of characters from Bl2/PS in BL3 because they 'didnt want to just have them in, rather than properly make use of them) decide that 95% of the fucking side missions be from random npcs around whose names and personalities have no real relation to anything. Seriously, Borderlands 1 is dull as fuck going back to it, because there's ass all in the world or characters. BL2 was amazing in pretty much every sense, and then they just kind of played twister with Bl3. Left arm on Shallow Characters and world...

@@switchplayer1016 it has a very similiar feel to persona with every month having a villain of the week vibes. Having bought the dlc pass I hope the hotsprings adds some levity between missions. Shame my sexy assassin girl can't be recruited :(

switch player 101 Who would Yahtzee like to nob the most is the real question now. My vote is Seteth for his royal sophistication and hair resembling an overly healthy Chia pet

@@nicholasware446 Or best girl Bernadetta, because she just wants to stay in her room the fuck away from all the overzealous anime people. :p

Honestly, it's a pretty damn solid game, coming off of Awakening, Fates, Echoes and Heroes, which were all various flavors of "meh" for me. I do agree that a lot of the academy exploring gets pretty dull after a while - I went ballistic on buying fishing lures and fished myself up to Professor Level B+ (by the way, stockpiling lures and waiting for a Lots and Lots of Fish day is a slow, but surefire way to grind Professor Level), and after that I kind of didn't know what all to do with my free time. I also kind of wish that there was a way to retry a failed class change, because one of my characters failed to Mortal Savant, and I really wanted to get there before the War Phase on that save file, so now I'm just stuck as a Swordmaster and it makes me grumpy.

It's because he didn't get to anything he would dislike, like how the game can't pick a main villain, or things like the down to 1hp dark magic spell. I definitely do think it's second place out of all of the most recent FE games, but that's not really saying much when it's competition is a mobile gacha game, whatever the hell Fates was by the time localization got done with it, and a remake set in between two games, one of which we never got

Threat Level: Welp.

I believe the boss theme of Armstrong is "It has to be this way"

@@pablodonner5213 it is collective Consciousness is the giant metal gear spider thingys theme

Sorry, that wasn't the case, It Has To Be This Way.

@@LordTyph Collective Consciousness ties into the rhetoric Armstrong was preaching before the Excelsus fight. It's only when Raiden breaks the metal gear and fights Armstrong 1-on-1 that he reveals his real motivations and his theme changes to It Has To Be This Way . As I recall, the "neo conservative policies" are most likely referring to the former, since what Armstrong was truly after was more like anarchy.

Platinum was never quite the same since Scalebound was cancelled...

​@@rr2637 platinumgames was never quite the same since viewtiful joe was released

I love Astral Chain

Tencent bought a huge share in platinum it was big new two years ago.

Well...they finally showed us Bayonetta 3 in such a way that made it not look like Bayonetta 3 at first. So...I have hopes.

Best closing gag in a while

This made me laugh way too hard out loud too!

But it was already one.....in the 3DS......EVEN BEFORE THE MOVIE COME OUT

Great. Now all I can think about is how much I want to see Office Jenny with a cyborg Arcanine.

@@gyga100 I think the worst thing about this comment is how 11 people looked and decided "Yes, this person makes a very good response and I shall publicly yet anonymously show my appreciation of said comment.

@@gyga100 We don't talk about that one

Could you explain?

Yes, could you explain?

Please explain

He never explained 😔

@@voodoodolll First run was stale cringy anime bullshit? Bruh...2Bs combat is fun as hell tho, and the characters are amazing tho.

Nier Automata actually has a really amazing story tbh. The beautiful android booty is just the cherry on top.

"Both?" "Both." "Both is good."

Finally got it... Unleashed the beasts! Dimacari Sagitta Murmillo Canis Samnite

Guess you’re not disappointed with today’s reveal? :D

@@randomerpro Oh man, so happy. Looks like the summons are controllable now?! Maybe they did take some inspiration from Astral Chain.

It's always that, or Dolphin sex

Fetch, boy! Now c’mere and get F-! XD

I think it’s more just natural storytelling, people generally make their own nation the focus because that’s what they and their audience will understand best. We do the same thing, plus given what the Angels in NGE actually are, jingoism doesn’t really make any sense.

The ark isn't Japanese tough, it's like a melding pot of cultures...tough admittedly it's mostly Murica/Japan.

@@albertzinger7132 This is true, but the strangest part about this is that the island nation of Japan survived world-toppling tsunamis as well as it did after Second Impact.

*looks around at riots breaking out in america and China being... China* They aren't wrong.

I think it's less to do with "everywhere else sucks" and more of a "everywhere else might as well not exist" scenario. Japan's isolationist history and culture makes way for a lot of stories based around isolationism. And yeah, Eva doesn't count since there's other countries in it.

@@KryptKicker5 I'd rather discourage people from purchasing the console than encourage them to accept the overpriced additional cost, though. The poorly designed and low quality default controllers are a reprehensible business practice on Nintendo's part.

@@ydahhrk would you rather have 2 Pro controllers slapped on the end of your portable console..? :)

​@@MorrisseyMuse I mean, since I'm never going to get what I want might as well go all the way and wish for a budget non-portable version. Without the screen. A switchless Switch.

I hope he'll review the Fairy Tail Game

I'm just happy the blue end cards are back.

You mean by not shoving giant lollipop in his mouth? 🍭

I think he likes Evangelion, he’s mentioned it a couple times before

But I love it when he loses his shit tho.

@@milktoast9140 I think the problem is that it's where most of the combat takes place so framerate becomes even more noticeable while framerate dosnt really matter when your just talking to npcs

The Astral plane is the "frame rate dimension" because it's optimized to get a better frame rate. It's not like the big city environment that has to load a bunch of different models and textures to look realistic

4 out of 5 of the monsters still hate you completely. The other one is kind of iffy.

I really do feel like I've seen that premise before, not trying to shoot you down, I'm just saying I really feel like I know a game that's like that

@@anotherpersonfromnorfolk1587 then find out what game that is, cause I want to know.

@@CompletelyNewguy Yeah I've really got to think about it Cuz I swear I've heard of that premise

That would require the main character to have a character

@@Locke3OOO hey, it's a fun meme game!

Isn't that just a normal Yahtzee review of any other game that he doesn't really like though? I mean, he'd just go around bullying everything, from the tiny stains on the carpet to the nerd kid with a plane. I begin to suspect that Yahtzee is that Goose...

@@Locke3OOO dude finally someone who understands! I keep on seeing so much love for this stupid looking game-- finally there's someone who sees past the reddit hype of it all

Untitled goose game is a brilliant game start to finish that completely transcends its meme popularity. Expertly crafted and super addictive.

well it ended in his end of year round up, with a hearty "not enough to say about it for a review"

Howdown Bomber!

I like stealth but you cant surprise us with it. Commit to it early or go for shoot out fights, just dont pull the brakes suddenly and shout "now hide!" After nothing but action sequences.

@@nomobobby absolutely. If a game has mechanics in place for stealth and the stealth doesn't bring progress to a screeching halt, then I am fine with it. Games like the Thief series are fun because the game's mechanics are built around you being stealthy. Having a light indicator, being able to extinguish light sources, quietly knockout guards, and use decoy distractions are part of the game specifically to help you remain undetected.

I'm torn. On one hand I like to see Yahtzee talk about series I enjoy. On the other hand Yahtzee doesn't like anime or strategy games so it wouldn't be the most entertaining video.

800 hour-long unfocused war-opera's appeal to a lot of people but yahtzee definitely prefers a more traditional linear storytype. I honestly just think he can't find enough material to make a good video. Hes probably going to end up doing it in a double or triple review or something.

Watch his Valkyria Chronicles video, and just imagine he's saying vague medieval fantasy terms instead of world war terms, with more petting your soldiers.

@@chillbro1010 I've only played Blue Lions so far but I hope this is the last style of "choose your story" since Yahtz is right about it being repetitive running around and the story being cut into 3 slices. A grandiose military story a la Final Fantasy 12 comes to mind.

Fire Emblem is a game of dice rolls where you just hope that the next dice roll goes your way and a few bad dice rolls means starting over; the fact that people played harder versions of the older games still baffles me, like you want the dice rolls to be even worse? How is the difficulty in this series fun to anyone? Why is permadeath desired in the dice roll game so much? At best, you can minimize the amount of bad dice rolls by playing in the most defensive and unfun way possible, but you can still easily be screwed over by one thing you didn't see coming or one critical hit from an enemy because crits are so strong that they are basically instant kills. The new one seemed to fix that by giving you time powers though, allowing you to control luck better, but everyone hates it. Of course, the new one looks fucking terrible though; all of the cutscenes are either this bizarre 20FPS incredibly choppy garbage CG anime looking shit or a bunch of characters standing in front of a picture. Most of the actual game looks fine, but I would say that the characters standing around thing is barely passable and the low FPS cutscenes are maybe some of the worst I've ever seen in any video game. Overall, still pretty good though.

FEEL THE POWER THAT WE GOT!

This is Yahtzee though. He will always find the quickest and easiest route, even if it's not the most optimal or goes against the intended way to play.

Congratulations, tour wish has been granted

@@dragonlord3376 WISHLISTED! XD

prolly black eaglers so he could knob Edel and cuk her by joining snow flower (albeit a worse choice, but hey the experience is pleasant)

As a big time Armored Core fan I am in love because this is the first game that feels like AC in forever. It even has bajillions of stats!

@@Ekklo hell yeah. You can take my Kusanagi with flight speed higher than air boost speed. You can take my Muramasa that can snipe people with swords and do literally nothing else. You can take my twin Astraeus arsenal Busters and my twin Silver Raven II boss busters. But don't you dare touch my disco ball of doom.

Wonderful 101 is an IP owned by Nintendo and it ends with the heroes fighting a giant brain across the solar system...so probably not that.

@@jackgarcia5926 But the focus of Wonderful 101 was a parody of superhero/super sentai shows that are themselves over the top. Thus, being over the top fits with W101 perfectly. Astral Chain, while being anime, is supposed to be a cop game and needs to be a bit more down to earth. Also, again, possible difference between design philosophies between Taura and Kamiya. (Side note: That statement could also apply to Star Fox. No point to make, just smirk worthy.)

Not sure it's fair to recommend based on the last boss. You could instead mention that the main characters rival is a Brazilian samurai mercenary that wields a legendary Japanese sword that has been improved by science to be rocket powered or some sh*t like that

Me: "Don't."

@@tidus94 It's sillier than that, you fire a gun attached to the hilt and it shoots tiny pile-drivers into the hilt guard to kick the sword out of its sheathe at Mach speeds. It's AWESOME and I don't care if the physics don't add up.

@@zyriantel9601 NANO MACHINES, SON!!!

Same here. I had to rewatch a lot of "Lets drown out" episodes because I fell asleep 20 minutes in :-D (damn it has been 3 years since the last one... Time sure does fly fast.)

If I had to wager a guess, Golden Deer. Because Claude's just so damn likable and personable.

Yahtzee appears to be as chronically madpressed as Dimitri, so they would be kindred souls

I hope not, I fear for the game if he does lol